(Medical Xpress)—Bioengineering researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have found that changing the shape of chemotherapy drug nanoparticles from spherical to rod-shaped made them up to 10,000 times more ...
Feb 27, 2013
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(Medical Xpress) -- You're headed out the door and you realize you don't have your car keys. After a few minutes of rifling through pockets, checking the seat cushions and scanning the coffee table, you find the familiar ...
Jul 17, 2012
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Scientists are not yet clear on how the tau protein changes from a benign protein essential for normal function in our brains into the toxic neurofibrillary tangles that are a signature of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative ...
Feb 14, 2023
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One of the big challenges in neurobiology is cell classification, a problem compounded by the fact that the same cell type can look different depending on the method of analysis used to classify it—whether by cell shape, ...
Jan 28, 2019
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A new test revealed that FDA-approved antibiotics—available at your neighborhood pharmacy—can effectively treat superbugs. They are not prescribed, however, because the gold-standard test predicts they will not work. ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Calcium is something of a double-edged sword. Too much of the essential element is as dangerous as too little, either case adversely affecting health in animals from humans to mice to fruit flies.
Jan 3, 2018
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New research by UC Santa Barbara's Kenneth S. Kosik, Harriman Professor of Neuroscience, reveals some very unique evolutionary innovations in the primate brain.
Feb 27, 2014
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Shame on you. These three simple words can temporarily—or, when used too often, permanently—destroy an individual's sense of value and self-worth.
Mar 13, 2014
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For something that has evolved with us over millions of years, and remains part of our physiology over our entire lives, our gut microbiome, oddly, remains somewhat of a mystery. Comprised of trillions of microbes of at least ...
May 13, 2020
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UC Santa Barbara researchers and collaborators in Colombia, Brazil and Germany are progressing toward an understanding of mechanisms that underlie Alzheimer's disease, in particular an early-onset, genetic form that has afflicted ...
Feb 27, 2024
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